moonbeam

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Page 48 The heart of a moonbeam is a pretty enough Friendship's-Album expression--let it pass, though I do think the figure a little strained; but humility has no tint, humility has no complexion, and if it had it could not mantle the earth.

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  • Raced for cover The Horst plane came down a moonbeam, as noisy as a rocket, exhaust stacks blowing sparks. —  073 - The Freckled Shark
  • Abby, with her black hair unevenly cut around a face pale as a moonbeam, and those navy blue eyes, reached out a hand that lay for a moment in Jury's like a white moth. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
  • OK ... the REVISED total that moonbeam is ENRAGED about. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • That is the signal for the fairies to come down on a moonbeam--with their white dresses shining and their long yellow hair streaming Illustration: IVY Illustration: WINTER JASMINE Most beautiful of them all is Rusialka, the queen of fairies and elves. —  The Dumpy Books for Children; No. 7. A Flower Book
  • Almost as silently as a moonbeam, she slid into the veranda and would have passed on into her room but that he put his arms round her and drew her to his heart The thought had come over him suddenly to test her courage and coolness thus, and she did not disappoint him. —  Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
 

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/ˈmunbim/
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